Article July 29, 1916 Issue

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with contributions from W. H. P. Faunce

[The Continent]

"Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing unto him [God] : for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him." Now plainly enough the apostle who wrote the epistle to the Hebrews, in which this verse appears, was right in saying that a man can never come into contact with God without at least that much faith. If a man does not think there is a God, what reason could he have for trying to get in touch with Him? And if one does not have confidence to believe that God will respond when a soul seeks to find Him, what could prompt any effort to search for Him?

So far then from being a discouragement, a straight look at the text affords something wonderfully encouraging in the very simplicity and reasonableness of the proposition. The cheering thing is that the two principles thus stamped as necessary—that there is a God and that He will open up the way to Himself whenever He sees a soul looking to find Him' — are such self-evident and instinctive ideas that a normal man does not at all need to have them proved to him.

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